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If you’re wondering if you should buy it or not, you might want to look somewhere else. The one on eBay is selling at the list price. Trainworld sells them for $80 each. That’s $50 off.[:)]
I asked about the model, that is cool. I will have to look into this one!
Perfect loco for a freelanced lumber road, we S scalers usually snap them up for Sn42 conversions. Mind you there were only two prototypes, narrow guage built by Baldwin with saddle tanks for serivce on the Utiah 7% grades, eventually rebuilt after a change in owners with tenders by Sumpter Valley.
They departed domestic shores upon abandoment of the Sumpter Valley in 1947 and ended their days forgotten and left to rot in the jungles of Guatamala before they were scrapped in the 60s . Typically the steam pipes were located under the water tanks on most lumber articulateds, but there were some additional examples with routing as per the model.
Dave
I wouldn’t mind having that model right there. That’s a purdyful one.[:D]
I was kinda ticked that mantua made it standard gauge when the prototype was 3 ft gauge.
Purdy indeed even with the oversized shoes. I’m going to need something similar for my lumber road connection, good thing a New Zealand company has the parts necessary to construct one to 3/16 scale!
Dave
It was probably necessary for them to do that. Narrow gauge probably wasn’t popular in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
It was the only available RTR or kit articulated, so mass marketing precipated the decision to do it as standard guage. At one time a narrow guage conversion kit was offered by the aftermarket. I recall the palpatations one would endure if you located a crappy Riverrossi articulated back in the 70s. models of these unique engines just were not available in afordable RTR. [soapbox]
Dave